The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-30

1t is authoritatively announced, by those
who profess to know, that the Spanish
Government and the Marquis de Crampo
have signed twenty-year contract for the
establishment of steamship line around
the world The steamers are to be large
and specially adapted for passenger ana
freight traffic. They will be iron or steel,
of I, 500 tons burden, and the Spanish Gov
eminent promises subsidy ana VIII pay
the tolls when the Panama Canal Is used.
Thirty-six trips year are contracted Ior
from Santander to New York and vera
Cruz. There will be two routes from
Panama, one to Valparaiso and one TO San
Francisco. There will be a line from
Havana to New Orleans; one from Havana
to Savannah. Ga, Baltimore and Ph1la-
deIphia, and will compete with the lines
running between New York, Boston and
Quebec. There are also lines to be run to
China. Japan and Australia, to the east
coast of Africa, and Buenos Ayres in South
America.
New YORK. June 16th.-T. BOulanger,
one of the chief engineers OF the Panama
Canal, talked regarding that great under
taking before the American Society OF
Civil Engineers last night Among other
things, he said that about 30,000,0OO cubic
meters of total of 14O. 100000 meters to be
excavated have now been removed. He
also asserted that the company only has
money enough on hand to continue the
work for four months and ne doubted if
De Lesseps could raise any more money
for the company in France. The death
rate among labOrers is about 60 per cent
among colored wOrkmen and 80 per cent
among white laborers per annum. The
company had great trouble in obtaining
workmen owing to this fact.
The new steel sloop, building at VIII
mmgton, Del, for General Paine, is ex-
pected to be ready to launch this week.
Paine hopes to have the boat ready to join
the New York Yacht Club feet on its an
nual cruise to begin at New London,
August Sd. As compared with the May
flower, she is three and three-quarter
inches longer on the water line, has two
and one-half inches less beam, and will
draw one foot more water, while the area
of the midship section, ninety-six square
feet, is sixteen feet greater. Unlike the
Mayf1ower, she will have a clipper stern,
fuller bilge and straighter free-board.
Yachtmen are almost unanimous in the
belief the American idea is to be put to the
very test IN the struggle against the Amer
ican-Scottlsh combination as evolved in
the Thistle, and there are not wanting
those who feel our only chance of retain
ing the American Cup rests upon the abil-
tiles of the new sloOp.
BosToN, June 8th.-Collector Saltonstall
to-day imposed a fine of $1,000 upon the
Cunard Steamship Company for permit
ting an insane woman to land from one of
their vessels.
PHILIPPoPoLIs, June 14th.-HailstOnes
strangely shaped, pointed, and weighing
over one pound each, recently fell in the
districts of Altos and Carnabat, between
Adrianople and Shumla, on the south
slope of the Balkan Mountains, East Rou-
melia. The hailstones destroyed harvests,
killed many labOrers and cattle in the
fields and pierced the roofs of houses like
bullets.
The Cunard steamship Umbria accom-
plished Saturday, June 4th, at noon, the
fastest passage ever made from Queens
town to Sandy Hook. Her time was six
days, four hours and twelve minutes. The
nearest approach to this record was made
by the Etruria in six days, five hours and
forty-four minutes. Captain McMikan's
log on this last run shows that he took a
southerly route and that his steamer had
an almost equal amount of favorable and
uDfavorable winds, with three hours of
misty weather on Thursday and five hours
of fog on Friday. The splendid achieve
ment of the Umbria was therefore due, not
to "a streak of luck or long succession
of easterly winds, but to the ships mettle,
and also to the judicious selection OF
southerly route. By taking such route
much fog and some high opposing gales
and heavy head seas were avoided.